Terie Norelli was a state legislator in the late 1990s when New Hampshire lawmakers passed a bill “without any hoopla” requiring insurance companies to provide...
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Come together (again)
When we profiled five of Portsmouth’s citizens groups in our July 29 issue, we expected to get feedback from readers. What was surprising, though, was...
Photo Contest to End Sept. 22!
Some spectacular photos have been sent in for the summer of 2015 photo contest. Keep'em coming! Three winners will receive gift certificates ($25-$75) good at the Franklin Oyster House, which serves oysters (naturally), progressive dishes and cocktails from the very spot where the Franklin House shucked and served oysters to locals 150 years ago. Submit your photos here.
Power on
With horns blaring and percussion booming, the Leftist Marching Band greeted the crowd as they entered the South Church on State Street for a July...
Come together
Portsmouth residents like to be involved. Maybe it’s because of the city’s history — it was home to New Hampshire’s first state house, until Concord...
Sounding off
Editorial A little less noise there, a little less… noise,” Mr. Darling tells his kids toward the beginning of “Peter Pan,” the summer musical showing...
Candidate in the Wild
The Sound’s Field Guide to Presidential Candidates spotted Wisconsin governor and newly-announced presidential candidate Scott Walker at Seacoast Harley Davidson in North Hampton on July...
Dover board OKs new high school
The Dover School Board approved an $86 million plan for a new combined high school and career technical center at a meeting on Monday, July...
Little by little
When Abby Ross talks about the tiny home she’s building in Kittery, Maine, she quotes a Carole King song: “Way over yonder is a place...
Live music on hold at The Press Room
[Editor’s note: this story was updated on July 15 at 5:50 p.m. to include comments from Portsmouth deputy fire chief Carl Roediger.] Walk by The...
At the Statehouse
As Portsmouth and other New Hampshire cities look at how to regulate Uber and other ridesharing services, a legislative study committee will soon take up...
Durham marketplace sold to Hannaford
Durham Marketplace owners Chuck and Betsy Cressy announced earlier this month that they have sold the downtown grocery store to the Maine-based Hannaford supermarket chain....
Field Guide to Presidential Candidates
Editor’s note: Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling...
Portsmouth talks short-term rentals July 13
The Portsmouth City Council will hold a first reading of an ordinance that would regulate short-term rentals at its Monday, July 13 meeting. The topic...
State budget debate continues
The beginning of the month marked the start of the state’s new fiscal year; however, a new state budget is still months away. Gov. Maggie...
From the ground up
When John Burns hosted the first Families Hoping and Coping support group meeting in Dover about a year ago, only three or four people showed...
The long walk
Since January 2014, volunteers with the New Hampshire Rebellion (NHR) have been walking up and down and across the Granite State to draw attention to...
Join the Sound Society
Dear reader, It’s been seven months since you welcomed The Sound into your life, and we couldn’t be happier. Are you ready to take it...
About the Site Update
PortsmouthNH.com has a new look! A lot of other things are new, too. There are new and larger photos. Listings have been enhanced, merged and moved. In fact, more that 3,000 photos have updated, resized and redone. Almost 800 places, businesses, organizations and things to do have been transferred, reorganized and updated. And nearly 1,000 calendar events have been fitted into a new system.
Open door
When Seacoast Outright announced it was sponsoring Portsmouth’s first official LGBTQ Pride event, it often prompted this follow-up question: “Why hasn’t Portsmouth done this before?”...
Public access
Robert Jesurum has used Sanders Poynt to get to Rye Beach for more than two decades. It’s a tradition that, according to his research, goes...
A second home
When Betty Eaton and her husband Roger moved into their Somersworth Housing Authority apartment on Bartlett Avenue in October 2006, one of their windows looked...
Ballot battles
With a presidential election on the horizon, New Hampshire lawmakers are turning their attention to state election laws. More than a dozen bills related to...
Field Guide to Presidential Candidates
Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling this guide...
Bag ban on hold, election change advances
A proposal to ban single-use plastic bags in Portsmouth is on hold. At a June 1 meeting, city attorney Robert Sullivan advised city councilors that...